Ian "Hixie" Hickson is the author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, the WHATWG HTML 5 specification,[1][2] and the Pingback specification,[3] and the early working draft of Web Applications 1.0.[4] He is known as a proponent of Web standards, and has played a crucial role in the development of specifications such as CSS. Hickson was a co-editor of the CSS 2.1 specification.[5]
Hickson was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and lived there for ten years.[6] He studied physics at the University of Bath in England. Later he was employed at Netscape and Opera Software; he worked for Google in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the specification editor of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG).[7] Hickson resigned from Google in late 2023.[8]
^"HTML5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML", W3C Working Draft 22 January 2008
^"HTML 5 Hits First Public Working Draft", Sean Michael Kerner, internetnews.com, 25 January 2008
^Pingback Specification
^"Web Applications 1.0". whatwg.org. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
Ian "Hixie" Hickson is the author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, the WHATWG HTML 5 specification, and the Pingback specification, and the...
from April 2007, and released on 3 March 2008. The main developer was IanHickson, a Google employee who also wrote the Acid2 test. Acid2 focused primarily...
revisions under IanHickson. After the protocol was shipped and enabled by default in multiple browsers, the RFC 6455 was finalized under Ian Fette in December...
html5-boilerplate". GitHub. Retrieved 25 February 2011. "Link Relations". IANA. IanHickson (19 January 2011). "HTML is the new HTML5". The WHATWG Blog. WHATWG....
would do the same. Lie and a colleague, IanHickson, created the first draft of the test in February 2005. IanHickson coded the final test in collaboration...
multiple people Ella Hickson (born 1985), British playwright Geoff Hickson (born 1939), English former football goalkeeper IanHickson, Swiss-British proponent...
HTML specifications to address issues raised in the past few years." IanHickson, editor of the HTML5 specification criticizing the improper use of XHTML...
community can influence the decisions of the editor. In one case, editor IanHickson proposed replacing the <time> tag with a more generic <data> tag, but...
specification was developed in 2002 by Stuart Langridge, Simon Willison, and IanHickson. In March 2014, Akamai published a report about a widely seen exploit...
2002). "Java's new Considered Harmful". Software Development Magazine. IanHickson (September 2002). "Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful". Eric...
in Windows 7. "Boris Zabrasky opposing EME". Retrieved 10 June 2016. "IanHickson opposing EME". Retrieved 10 June 2016. "Richard Stallman Braved a Winter...
Vector Graphics | CorelDRAW". www.coreldraw.com. Retrieved 2022-09-23. IanHickson remarks regarding canvas and other Apple extensions to HTML "[whatwg]...
that the W3C's HTMLWG would stop to jointly develop HTML5 with WHATWG. IanHickson was responsible for both editing the two groups' specifications. In October...
standards is within the purview of Acid3, an automated test published by IanHickson in 2008. Similarly, Acid3 does not evaluate a browser's HTML5 conformance...
WHATWG developers of the HTML 5 specifications, being co-editor, with IanHickson, of the first public working draft, published by the World Wide Web Consortium...
on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2022. Appropriate Use of Alternative Text from WebAIM Mini-FAQ about the alternate text of images by IanHickson...
2022-07-29 (2022.07.29) See Supybot A maintained fork of Supybot [31] Mozbot IanHickson, Chris Crews MPL Cross-platform Perl ? ? ? services to developer communities...
encodings in HTML Charset detection Unicode character reference (wikibooks) IanHickson (2011). "HTML5". Retrieved 17 September 2011. Authors are encouraged...
In March 2018, Hickson sued the film's production company Incident Productions over lost work as a result of the incident. Hickson claimed in the lawsuit...
Utah) Prof. Malene Hansen (Buck Institute for Research on Aging) Prof. IanHickson (Center for Chromosome Stability and Center for Healthy Aging, University...
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